Extra stellar systems are so far away from our own that we couldn’t even hope of developing a tape measure long enough to determine how far away they really are. On the other hand, astronomers can ...

A team of scientists led by Sebastian Hoenig from the University of Southampton in England has accurately measured the distance to the nearby NGC 4151 galaxy, using the W. M. Keck Observatory ...

One of the major problems in astronomy is measuring very large distances in the universe. The current most common methods measure relative distances, but now research from the Niels Bohr Institute ...

Beginning stargazers are often frustrated when trying to tell a friend how far a night sky object appears to be from another. Just how far apart do Polaris and the Big Dipper seem to be? Inches? Feet?

The "Eye of Sauron" is assisting astronomers seeking new methods to accurately measure distances to far-flung galaxies. Using the Keck Observatory, perched on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, astronomers have ...

If you want to find the size of a basketball, you can use a normal meter stick to measure the diameter. You should get a value of around 0.24 meters. Please don't use inches—they are just harder to ...

Measuring distances accurately has become significantly easier with the advent of smartphone technology, particularly with the array of distance measuring apps available for both Android and iPhone.

A team of scientists, led by Dr Sebastian Hoenig from the University of Southampton, have developed a new way of measuring precise distances to galaxies tens of millions of light years away, using the ...